Zuzanna
A Slavic name meaning "lily". It still sits inside Poland's top 100 and gets given often enough that you almost certainly know at least one Zuzanna, even as newborns have thinned since the name's 2000s high.
Zuzanna Pronunciation
Zuzanna is pronounced zoo-ZAHN-nah (/zuˈzanna/).
What Zuzanna means
Where Zuzanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zuzanna reaches Polish through Slavic speech, and the sense fixed to it is a flower. The name means lily, lilia in Polish, the tall white bloom that keeps turning up in old church art. That meaning has clung to the name for a very long time.
Polish loves to shorten what it loves. Zuzanna gives way to Zuzia at home, and to Zuza when even that feels long. Across the southern border the variant Zuzana does the same work in Czech and Slovak. The full form waits on documents; the short forms do the daily living.
Picture a school register in September. The teacher reads Zuzanna, and three hands or none go up, and by lunch she is Zuzia to everyone. One of her name days falls on the eleventh of August, so the imieniny arrives in high summer, flowers already in the shops. The lily got there first.
When Zuzanna celebrates name day
Zuzanna appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 24 May.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Zuzanna
1 in 99 women in Poland is named Zuzanna. 227,921 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #55 among female names.
Zuzanna's popularity over time
3,881 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #9 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Zuzanna is most popular
Zuzanna is given fairly evenly across Poland, with no strong regional preference. It leans slightly toward Świętokrzyskie (18% above the national average) and is least common in Greater Poland (15% below).
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Świętokrzyskie1,236 girls born+18%
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Lublin2,172 girls born+12%
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Warmian-Masurian1,476 girls born+9%
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Subcarpathian2,441 girls born+7%
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Podlaskie1,333 girls born+7%
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Silesian4,533 girls born+6%
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Opole913 girls born+5%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2,142 girls born+4%
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Lubusz963 girls born+3%
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Łódź2,460 girls born+3%
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Lower Silesian3,010 girls born+2%
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Lesser Poland4,287 girls born0%
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West Pomeranian1,580 girls born−1%
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Pomeranian2,655 girls born−4%
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Masovian6,094 girls born−9%
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Greater Poland3,447 girls born−15%
Zuzanna as a middle name
Zuzanna is a first name for 227,921 women in Poland and a middle name for another 45,292, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 52nd, between Dominika (48,283) and Gabriela (43,767).
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#50 Emilia49,020
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#51 Dominika48,283
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#52 Zuzanna45,292
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#53 Gabriela43,767
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#54 Stefania42,168